B.J. Blazkowicz

Well, this was a surprise. I wasn’t expecting much from my hands-on session withWolfenstein: The New Order. I was underwhelmed with the demo I saw at E3, and the quick time I spent with the first-person shooter didn’t give much hope. It was more of an exercise in frustration. Back in June, I was dropped in the middle of the game with little to no input on the gameplay. Suffice to say, I died a lot.

But this month, I got to play The New Order from the beginning. I played through the prologue on a PlayStation 4, and with everything in context, the shooter was better than I was expecting. It offers a hat tip to its PC predecessor with its hero B.J. Blazkowicz and the levels of difficulty going from Can I play, Daddy? to Uber, which needs to be unlocked. I chose Bring ‘em On!, the equivalent to normal.